Boss Up Academy

How to Reach Beyond Your Comfort Zone (Interview with Andy Molinsky)

Released: Oct 8, 2017

In this week’s episode, we talk with Andy Molinsky, a professor of organizational behavior at Brandeis University’s International Business School, specializing in behavior change and cross-cultural interaction in business settings. Andy’s work helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life.

Andy’s research and writing has been featured in Harvard Business Review,Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, NPR and Voice of America. Andy was awarded as a Top Voice for LinkedIn for his work in education. His first book, Global Dexterity(Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), received the Axiom Award (Silver Medal) for Best Business Book in International Business & Globalization and has been used widely in organizations around the world, including Boeing, AIG, the US Air Force Academy, and the Clinton Foundation, among others. His new book Reach was published with Penguin Random House in January 2017. He teaches, consults, and lectures widely to university and corporate audiences. Find out more about Andy here: www.andymolinsky.com

“Reaching beyond your comfort zone is hard to do, but it’s hard for a set of very predictable reasons. Once you recognize these reasons, you can start to develop a plan for addressing them.” - Andy Molinski

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